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Hong Kong’s Brinc Launches Climate Tech Program to Support Early-Stage Startups in Carbon Dioxide Removal Solutions

AsiaTechDaily

Register Hong Kong-based Brinc, a renowned global venture accelerator, has announced the launch of its Climate Tech program, specifically tailored for early-stage startups in the field of climate technology. Headquartered in Hong Kong Brinc is a prominent global venture accelerator that operates 13 accelerator programs across seven countries.

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LandscapeHub Raises $9M Series A

HPA

HPA participated in the round, which was co-led by a Klaff Realty, LP affiliate and Hyde Park Venture Partners. HPA Deal Lead Peter Layton is a former partner at Goldman Sachs and CEO of Tallgrass Group, the parent company of various corporations specializing in different aspects of ecological restoration.

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Circularity Tales: environmental entrepreneurship in Dakar

Impact Hub

Named “Wërngël-Bi”, a term in Wolof that translates to “The Circle”, the circularity programme at Impact Hub Dakar supported different entrepreneurs carrying out projects that ranged from eco-construction to ecological toilets. Founder of the Cactus Innovation venture, El Hadji Malick Sagne was another participant of the programme.

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Founders from MIT With a Plan to Change How We Grow and Eat Food

Both Sides of the Table

It’s something Yves Sisteron & I have been talking about for years at Upfront Ventures. Tack on the challenges with land, bee population decline, heavy use of ecologically destructive fertilizers and pesticides and extreme food waste and this adds up to a real global challenge. .

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10 Zurich-area investors on Switzerland’s 2020 startup outlook

TechCrunch

Venture Kick was launched in 2007 with the vision to double the number of spin-offs from Swiss universities and draws from a jury of more than 150 leading startup experts in Switzerland. These are the investors we interviewed: Jasmin Heimann, partner, Ringier Digital Ventures. Philipp Stauffer, partner, FYRFLY Venture Partners.

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Circularity in action: Circular projects in Portugal

Impact Hub

Circularity in action: Circular projects in Portugal Rizoma and Studio 8 are pioneering ventures based in Portugal, each embodying a strong commitment to the principles of sustainability and the circular economy. project to catalyse a transformative shift towards a circular economy in Armenia.

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Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty and a newer startup, FIT:MATCH, team up to sell better-fitting lingerie

TechCrunch

from Cornell’s College of Human Ecology. Yet Brown insists that FIT:MATCH has a secret weapon in its chief data scientist, Jie Pei, who developed the body-mapping technology while pursuing her Ph.D. Cornell has since licensed three of the patents on which she worked to FIT:MATCH.)

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